a) i would agree with you that the server behavior here could be improved. it will always be possible that a server can not process items in your batch for some reason, so you need a strategy to deal with it, but the 503 seems to be something a service should be avoiding. But i leave that up to the apps team to answer in more detail.
b) Your algorithm seems reasonable and it's up to you to create a new batchfeed. In .NET you would iterate over your original feed, remove the successful ones, and just batch again, so it's not too complicated (IMO). Regards Frank Mantek Google On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:59 PM, bobb wrote: > > I read with interest this conversation on a similar topic: > http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis/browse_thread/thread/3b191cc9dbefe937/5757612620d41390?lnk=gst&q=503+server+busy#5757612620d41390 > > One apparent difference with my case, however, is that I am using > MailItemService.Batch() to upload 50 messages at > a time. For each upload transaction, I examine the result feed for the > status code of each entry. > > I see many instances where of the 50 entries in a feed, a third or > maybe half of them are marked as "503" with the reason "server busy, > try again later". The rest are as expected, code 201 "Created". > > Two important questions: > > 1) How do I prevent this from happening? My claim would be that in a > batch feed the server itself should figure out how to queue/cache the > entries in the feed so that it can handle them all, not just some of > them. > > 2) Given that it's going to happen, how do I recover? I can imagine a > technique whereby I find the entries in the result feed that have this > problem, then match them (by batch id probably) with the original > entries in the upload feed, then somehow submit them again (maybe 1- > by-1? Or as a new batch feed?). This seems unreasonably complex, and > also creates a ton more http traffic. > > Any suggestions? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
